People's need to protect their own egos know no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, even kill, to do whatever it takes to maintain what we call ego boundries.

If we are quiet enough, we can hear it: the space between us filling up fast with all the things we are too afraid to say to each other.

Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

I've been very fortunate to work with people that I'm fans of.

Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.

I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.

We are greater than the sum of our parts.

I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.

I do use the F word a lot, unfortunately.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.